The 'dark patterns' at the center of FTC's lawsuit against Amazon
NICKELSBURG: Experts like Andrea Matwyshyn say when that design tricks a consumer into doing something they didn't intend to, it becomes a dark pattern. She…
NICKELSBURG: Experts like Andrea Matwyshyn say when that design tricks a consumer into doing something they didn't intend to, it becomes a dark pattern. She…
Last week, we published three separate posts that looked at the FTC’s recent settlement with Aylo, the parent company of multiple adult websites including, most…
“Right now, there are real robotaxis carrying real people on real roads,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an AV researcher and professor at the University of South Ca…
"In her forthcoming book Hate 3.0, University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron tells the story of a Florida graduate student who found herself the…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a research fellow at the Stanford Law and Engineering schools, isn’t as certain. “Nobody knows how safe these vehicles are, how safe…
"In his paper entitled “Digital Market Manipulation”, professor M. Ryan Calo (who is also an affiliate scholar at The Center for Internet and Society at St…
"Still, Woodrow Hartzog, a professor and privacy law expert at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Alabama, told Ars that while the law m…
"The ruling in Smith has been widely and justly condemned—and as Jennifer Granick has ably argued here, is of dubious relevance to NSA’s bulk collection pr…
"“People are not comfortable with robots killing them,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society."…
"“If you visit one website, you have a whole bunch of other companies tracking you, as well, and then they’re tracking you on other websites, too, so they…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a civil engineer, lawyer, and Stanford Law School fellow, is the leading expert on how existing law would apply to self-driving cars.…
"Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University professor who studies online advertising and privacy, said it was unclear that so-called anonymous codes would actua…
"Privacy advocate Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University privacy expert who works with Mozilla, quit the group last month. "Given the lack of a viable…
"Ms. McDonald argued that there is still hope for progress and her experience has been less hampered by obstacles perceived by Mr. Mejia and other particip…
"The three founding directors are Ryan Calo, Assistant Professor at the UW’s School of Law; UW Associate Professor Tadayoshi Kohno, from Computer Science a…